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The '''Holy Orthodox Church in North America''' or '''HOCNA''', originally formed under the auspices of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]], whose ruling Archbishop was Archbisop Auxentios of Greece, now falls under the spiritual guidance of His Eminence's Metroplitan Makarios of Toronto, Metroplitan Ephraim of Boston and Metroplian Moses of Seattle. After breaking from the Greek Archdiocese and being received into the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] (aka ROCOR), it broke from the latter in 1986 after HOCNA felt ROCOR was following the Ecumenical Movement. HOCNA regards itself as being the last true remnant and defender of the True Orthodox Church.

In January 1986, four former members of Holy Transfiguration Monastery came forward The break with allegations of sexual misconduct against the monastery's superior, Fr Panteleimon. In response to these allegations, the synod of bishops of the [[ROCOR]] set up a commission to investigate HTM; the commission consisted of Archbishop [[Anthony (Sinkevich) of Los Angeles]] and Bishop [[Alypy (Gamanovich) of Chicago and Detroit]].  The commission presented its findings to the next meeting of the Synod, held in Mansonville, Canada. Six accusers presented testimony was primarily due to the Synod. Fr Ephraim, Dean of the New England Deanery. spoke change in defense spiritual direction of Fr PanteleimonROCOR after His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret reposed. Fr Panteleimon Metropolitan Philaret was questioned, denied the allegations, but agreed to be relieved of his duties as superior. On May 16/29, 1986, the Synod suspended Panteleimon and appointed Fr Isaac as temporary administrator. In a subsequent meeting true defender of the Synod, on November 12/25, 1986, the Synod suspended both Panteleimon and Isaac, Orthodox Church and order a commission to investigate allegations against Isaac. Fr Justin was appointed as administrator. In December 1986, despite the decisions of the Synod, the Holy Transfiguration Monastery elected Isaac as its superior. Then, on [[December 12]], 1986, the monastery notified Metropolitan [[Vitaly (Ustinov) of New York]] that it was leaving ROCOR because of modernism and ecumenism.  Fr Alexey Young in his history of the ROCOR writes that a few weeks before the schismconviction, Fr Panteleimon had this to say about the ROCOR: "The Synod Church [the ROCOR] is a real standard of Orthodoxy.... Therefore, discerning where the Truth is found, we remain in unity under our bishops in the midst of many trials...because grace abides in the Synod.... We uphold our Synod primarily love and foremostly as a standard Christian example did members of Orthodoxy. All others have betrayed the Truth. This was demonstrated of late by the election of our new Metropolitan [Vitaly]...." ===Overtures with the Old Calendar Greeks===On [[August 19]] / [[September 1]], 1986, the Synod of Bishops of the HOCNA today join ROCOR formally deposed Panteleimon, Isaac, and all the clergy who followed them into the schism [http://www.hocna.info/ROCOR_Statement_December_1986.shtml]. The Synod stated that "...all the clergymen who have withdrawn with Archimandrite Panteleimon who dare to celebrate the divine services, ignoring their suspension, and thus violate the canons and pronounce upon themselves a sentence of condemnation." Panteleimon and HTM then joined a synod of the Greek [[Old Calendarists|Old Calendarist]] movement headed by Akakios of Diavlia and Gabriel of the Cyclades. After ROCOR forwarded documents about Panteleimon to Akakios and Gabriel, the latter quit the synod. Finding itself with only one bishop, HTM started negotiations with another synod, that of Archbishop [[Auxentios of Athens]] (the so-called "Auxentiites"). Despite warnings from Akakios and Panteleimon's previous opinion of Auxentios, whom he called the "garbage pit of Orthodoxy" (Auxentios was deposed for ordaining a homosexual to the episcopate for an undisclosed sum of money), HTM quit Akakios and joined the Auxentiite synod. In 1995, Maximos of Kephalonia replaced Auxentios. He then asked ROCOR for the same documentation that was provided to Akakios and Gabriel. Upon receiving the documentation, Maximos quit the synod, leaving HTM and the bishops ordained by Auxentios. The latter incorporated a new organization called the '''Holy Orthodox Church in North America''' or '''HOCNA'''.

Today, HOCNA consists of Holy Transfiguration Monastery many monastic communities, missions and an estimated 30 parishes throughout the United States and , Canada, the most famous of which is St Nektarios American Orthodox Cathedral in SeattleGreece, Russia, Georgia, Washington[http://www.stnectariospress.com/]Africa and South America. Administratively, HOCNA is divided into 3 metropolises—Boston, Seatle, and Toronto. HOCNA has three hierarchs: